Want to know why we are having it so hard in Iraq?

[loudnclear]

I had to go through www.cursor.org to get to this paper and media outlet. There is so much there, I don't know where to begin.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/663/fr2.htm

" Some Iraqi newspapers disagree, maintaining that, "Al-Qa'eda members would not remain undetected in Baghdad without local assistance." Nueimi remains sceptical. "The Americans are always talking about Al-Qa'eda and foreign militants," she said. "Let them show us just one on national television, complete with name and nationality."

The precarious situation in Iraq is viewed by the US military in technical terms, and they remain convinced that all weapons in the country will be turned in for money. As the joke goes here, "I'll sell them my Kalashnikov to buy something better." This may be difficult to achieve. In the last few days of the war the Iraqi army failed to deliver the Stalingrad in Baghdad that they had promised. Instead, soldiers and officers fled, taking with them a huge arsenal of weapons which included mines, mortars and small rockets. These are weapons from Russia, France as well as the US, bought by Saddam Hussein back in the days when Iraq was on the list of friendly countries. Military experts estimate that guerrillas need only one-tenth of these weapons to engage the US troops in guerrilla warfare for a year."

[KG]

1. as i heard someone say on the radio

before the invasion, iraq was a vast ammo dump with saddam in charge, now its a vast ammo dump with nobody in charge.

[jonoboy]

2. remember how they scoffed at us after Baghad fell so quickly

..said we were full of humbug when we claimed there would be guerilla warfare.
I had a right wing columnist reply by email to me and tear strips of me for saying that it would not be an easy victory. Now she ignores me when I ask what she thinks about the casualty rate.

[Mairead]

3. Remember how it came out after that SmirkCo had bought off the cadre?

They used our money to buy a fall.